Alexandre Dumas Quotes
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.
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Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
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I believe in public services.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
